Back in March, as excited residents in the city of Berlin packed in together to watch their local hockey team compete for its first championship in thirty years, devastating news wafted in from Berlin's pulp mill. Fraser Papers announced it would be closing the mill's doors for good.
Two months later, the mill officially shut down, and "The City That Trees Built" was faced with the stark reality of a very different economic future. Since then, talk has bubbled across the city over how to use the old pulp mill building as a way to build new industry there.
NHPR Stories
Web Resources:
NHPR Web Extra: Berlin Pulp Mill Timeline
NHPR Web Extra: Slideshow of the Fraser Pulp Mill in Berlin
Photo: Cheryl Senter
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